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..., and from Socrates's description of a luxurious city, this piece argues that what we are inseparable from are mostly things and persons that our body can go on without. To the extent that such things and persons, and the relationship in which we stand to them, are distinct from our bodies, what we...

... among indigenous actors. Although these processes are mostly absent from colonial or later sources, they should not remain foreign to ethnology, as the three empirical cases analyzed in this essay show. Methodologically, the essay asks why the regulatory image of Rousseau's small community, meeting face...

... ideas — especially Descartes's argument that a mind “unclouded and attentive” can be “wholly freed from doubt” ( Rules III, 5) — this essay then turns to assess the validity of counter-Enlightenment arguments, mostly Russian but also anglophone and French, against the association of clarity...

... of composition. In it, she reviews the stance of feminist literary criticism toward religion and finds it to be generally negative. She regrets that feminist critics see in religion mostly a means of subordinating women to men, given that most of the writers whose work they explicate were themselves fervently...

... xenophilia, the article argues, is politically motivated by Abu Taleb's strong, but mostly tacit, reservations about the English, his imperial patrons. He realigns the relationship between metropole and colony by casting Ireland as the bridgehead of a glorious Islamic-Persianate culture that spread westward...

... Orthodox, early Hasidic, Shi'ite, Jain and other Indic, Taoist, and Zen religious traditions. This introduction emphasizes the secular approaches, mostly antipolitical or postphilosophical, that wear the adjective “quietist” metaphorically, including the postmodern currents that Martha Nussbaum has named...

... call mainly dealt with political and ethical matters. In this introduction he replies chiefly to pieces by the philosophers Richard Rorty and Paul Feyerabend dealing with poverty, famine, sickness, and environmental concerns, but Kermode also addresses and mostly agrees with arguments made in Common...

...Katia Boissevain Christianity has a long presence in the Maghreb, dating back to Roman imperial times. Eventually it became a mostly Muslim region, but in the late nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church embarked on a vast mission of church building, in part to assist the French colonial...

... by Muslim and Christian individuals, blurred religious belonging as it is traditionally defined. Anthropologists and ethnologists have studied exopraxis broadly, while historians have neglected the topic until recently. In the case of anthropologists, studies have mostly focused on the spatiality of sharing...

... to Urbinati's prompt, focuses on the place and role of China's experimental lotteries and citizen assemblies in the global discussion of sortition and democracy. Those experiments, at the national but mostly local levels in China, are understood differently from each of the three prevailing perspectives...

... Republic were then governed by powers perceived to be alien and distant, with the result that popular sentiment was diffident about most varieties of governance and political practice. State power indeed was mostly regarded as illegitimate. More recently, especially since World War II, that diffidence...

... beautiful. More often it was splintered, split, or hard with creosote or some gross nasty probably cancer-­causing crap throughout and gouges like where telephone repairpersons gouged things in to climb onto. Mostly it was round though not entirely, not true, but bent...

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.... To understand our present attitude toward Lear as purely fabulous, we need to understand the widespread acts of acceptance that mostly vanished, large communities once made. These were communities in which uncles, babies, and vast awful bulldogs, all averse to self- description, inspired the intensity...

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... much with function as with a range of the many- faceted experi- ences of silence, largely through (mostly French) literature and works of art in various genres. Corbin catches the psychological nuances and contexts of silence, from monastic silence to the silence of intimacy (Proust: The air...

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... diaries became public in the 1990s, editors mostly excluded the material about film to keep the publication a manageable size. This new edition restores entries from between June 1929 and April 1945 with a focus on what Klemperer describes as one of his “addictions”—watching movies. Film scholars...